I currently own a Nokia 445Xi - it is indeed a nice monitor, though mine is a little old (picked it up used several years ago), so the complaints I have about it probably arise more from age than the monitor itself. it is somewhat lacking as far as brightness goes... it just seems like the shadow mask saps out too much. It is at a comfortable level, though it is turned up all the way to get that. This also seems to hurt the color saturation a bit. All in all, at that price, a good monitor - and I'm sure all of my complaints will all but disappear on a new model.

Now, I have delegated my 21" Nokia 445Xi to "secondary monitor" status, where it sits beside my primary, a 21" Nokia 445XPro, which is, yes, the step up quality wise from the 445Xi. The difference is astounding. I've had it up to it's max resolution of 1800x1440, and the clarity was great - didn't even have to boost the font sizes to make them readable. Even has dual video inputs - vga, and what I think is called BCI, or something like that... not there at the moment, and been a while since I looked at that. It's some sort of split input format anyways. Picked this one up from one of those annoying "Super Computer Sales" which seems to be at the Overland Park Expo Center every 3 or 4 months, for about $80. I did notice that the guy selling it also had a 445Xi for the same price too...

One thing to keep in mind - these are both huge and heavy. Make sure you have a large footprint on a sturdy surface (my dual monitors take up the vast majority of a 3x6 steelcase table).

What's this all mean, and what can I recommend? Hell if I know.. just thought I'd add some notes from someone who owns one. Make of it what you will.